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The Thing is a 1982 American science fiction horror film directed by John Carpenter from a screenplay by Bill Lancaster.Based on the 1938 John W. Campbell Jr. novella Who Goes There?, it tells the story of a group of American researchers in Antarctica who encounter the eponymous "Thing", an extraterrestrial life-form that assimilates, then imitates, other organisms.
Similarly, in the 1982 film, the Thing sows distrust among the crew members, representing anti-communist paranoia and the Red Scares. [6] [7] While the original film portrays the battle against communism as a noble battle against evil, the 1982 version comments on the paranoia, distrust, and social upheaval that the Red Scares caused.
Cast and crew Ref. J A N U A R Y: 1 Madman: Jensen Farley Pictures: Joe Giannone (director/screenplay); Gaylen Ross, Paul Ehlers, Tony Fish, Harriet Bass, Seth Jones, Jan Claire, Alex Murphy, Jimmy Steele, Carl Fredericks, Michael Sullivan 22 Death Valley: Universal Pictures / Cinema VII
Jed was a Pacific Northwestern American animal actor, known for his roles in the movies White Fang (1991), [1] White Fang 2: Myth of the White Wolf (1994), The Journey of Natty Gann (1985), and The Thing (1982). He was born in 1977 and died in June 1995. [2] He was a Vancouver Island wolf-Alaskan Malamute hybrid. [3]
The Thing: John Carpenter: Kurt Russell, Keith David, Wilford Brimley: United States [57] Trick or Treats: Gary Graver: Carrie Snodgress, Peter Jason, David Carradine: United States [58] Unhinged: Don Gronquist: Laurel Munson, Janet Penner, Sara Ansley United States [59] Variola Vera: Goran Marković: Rade Šerbedžija, Erland Josephson, Rade ...
The Thing from Another World, sometimes referred to as just The Thing, is a 1951 American black-and-white science fiction-horror film directed by Christian Nyby, produced by Edward Lasker for Howard Hawks' Winchester Pictures Corporation, and released by RKO Radio Pictures.
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Chad Orzel was considerably more negative, calling it "far from impressive", with "two main weaknesses forced on the story by the basic concept": the extent to which it requires familiarity with the 1982 film, and Watts' effort to "basically retcon the goofy biology of the movie alien, which was based on the goofy biology of a John Campbell ...